VI. PROPAGATION. 



nothing ragged or bruised about the bark. As to situa- 

 tion, watering, and the rest, follow precisely the direc- 

 tions given in the case of the slips. Currants and goose- 

 berries, some apples, and a great number of flowering- 

 shrubs are universally propagated from cuttings. 



304. BUDS are little pieces taken out from the side of 

 a shoot in the summer, containing a newly-formed bud, 

 which is fixed into the side of a branch growing upon 

 another tree j but, as buds will be more fully described 

 when I come to the act of budding, nothing more is 

 necessary upon the subject in this place. 



205. STOCKS. The general way of obtaining fruit- 

 trees of the larger kinds is by grafting or budding ; and 

 this grafting or budding is performed by putting cuttings 

 or buds upon other trees. They may be put upon large 

 trees, which are already bearing j so that, by these arts, 

 you may have numerous sorts of fruit upon the same 

 tree j but, what I am to treat of here is, the manner of 

 raising young trees ; and, to have these, there must be 

 stocks previously prepared to receive the grafts or the 

 buds ; therefore, I now proceed to give directions for the 

 making of this previous preparation or provision. Under 

 the name of the different fruits, I shall speak of the sort 

 of stocks suitable to each j but I may observe here, that 

 the stocks for apples are crabs, or apples j that the stocks 

 for pears, are pears, quinces or hawthorn j and that the 

 stocks for peaches and nectarines, are plums, peaches, 

 nectarines, or almonds ; that the stocks for apricots are 

 plums or apricots : that the stocks for plums are plums ; 

 that the stocks for cherries, are cherries j and that the 



